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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 230

Miniature Awards: The K.C.B., K.C.V.O. Group of Eight Attributed to General Sir L.J. Oliphant, Grenadier Guards The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Commander´s (K.C.B.) badge, gold and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander´s (K.C.V.O.) badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Jubilee 1897, silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885; Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902; Khedive´s Star 1884; Greece, Kingdom, Royal Order of the Redeemer, gold and enamel, minor enamel damage to last, otherwise good very fine, mounted Court style as worn (8) Estimate £ 300-350 K.C.B. London Gazette 19.6.1911 General Sir Laurence James Oliphant, K.C.V.O., C.B., General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command C.B. London Gazette 31.10.1902 Major-General Laurence James Oliphant, M.V.O. ´In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa´ K.C.V.O. London Gazette 9.11.1905 Major-General Laurence James Oliphant, C.V.O, C.B., Commanding- London District. C.V.O. London Gazette 9.11.1902 Major-General Laurence James Oliphant, C.B., M.V.O. M.V.O. London Gazette 9.7.1897 Colonel Laurence J. Oliphant, commanding Grenadier Guards General Sir Laurence James Oliphant, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., born Condie, Perthshire, December 1846, the son of Laurence Oliphant, M.P. for Perth; Commissioned Ensign, Grenadier Guards, October 1866; Captain, December 1869; Lieutenant-Colonel, December 1876; Major, November 1882; served in the Sudan expedition of 1885; Colonel, November 1886; Major-General, November 1898; served during the Boer War in command of Germiston District, and in command of a section of the Lines of Communication (C.B. and Mentioned in Despatches); Commanded the 3rd Brigade at Aldershot 1900-01; at Elandsfontein, South Africa, 1902; and the London District during 1903-06; Lieutenant-General, August 1905; Appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, 1907; General, March 1911. General Oliphant died in London, July 1914. Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, 23.6.2005

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